Paladin

The class that gained the most: tough, flexible and fast.

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For levelling

Levelling

With Holy Strike and Consecration as baseline, Paladin kills groups and single targets, rarely runs out of mana or health, and can tank, heal and deal damage in dungeons without changing talents. It went from a slow class to one of the best.

Strengths

Area and single-target damage with many abilities
Survives almost anything: heals, bubble and Lay on Hands
Tank, heal and damage in dungeons; free mount at level 40

Weaknesses

Little mobility in combat
Long cooldowns on the main defences
Needs to drink (mana)

The three talent trees

Holy
Healer
Protection
Tank
Retribution
Damage

Talent trees

The class's three trees as they are in the game: each row unlocks after spending 5 points in the tree, and the number in the corner is the talent's maximum rank.

Holy

5

5

5

5

3

1

2

2

5

2

1

3

5

1

Protection

5

5

3

2

5

1

3

3

5

3

3

1

5

5

1

Retribution

5

5

2

3

5

3

5

1

2

2

2

3

1

5

1

Talent builds

This class's talent builds arrive with the launch, once the trees are final.

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